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Republic of Ireland national football team – record in major tournaments

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ7314483 ↗
Source-derived summary

This page covers the record of the Republic of Ireland national football team in the FIFA World Cup, European Football Championship and UEFA Nations League. In the "Results" section, home results are written before away results. Where the Republic of Ireland only played a team once, (h), (a) and (n) indicate home, away or neutral respectively.

Editorial summary

“Republic of Ireland national football team – record in major tournaments” enters the record as open-knowledge reference entry. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Republic, Ireland and national can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 56-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Republic, Ireland and national.
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“Republic of Ireland national football team – record in major tournaments” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Republic, Ireland and national provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7314483. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Republic of Ireland national football team – record in major tournaments” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.